The Odyssey of Homer
by Homer
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Author: HomerBrand: HarperCollins
Translator: Richmond Lattimore
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); Ancient Greek (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-06-01
ISBN: 0060931957
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Book Review: !!!ROCKETA!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
homer! what flow-gush resides in you! what scintillata and mercury! what cinder and tumult! he to me is our globe's greatest author not because he has created the greatest work nor because his copious flux of ideas fill shelves of bookcases but because he completely glostounded his contemporaries and remained the most formidable author perhaps for 24 centuries and still is newly translated with each generation every now and again gracing the bestseller lists! who among us in the year 4400 will still capture audiences consistently? who among us will be translated more than a thousand times? who among us can step out of time so effortlessly the all cultures can identify with our predicament. perhaps only a handful of works, le recherche, paradise lost, faust and ulysses surpass this seminal work yet who knows if those works' arch-supremican complexica will prove too burdensome for readers two millenia hence.
homer strikes that importance balance between trivium and import, rather than glostound as joyce has with his unmasking of enigmas that few can understand he instead macro-intrigues us by focusing on a struggle more universal in its scope than any other: the struggle to return home and establish one's self in the safe womb of stability! and the last third of that great work devotes itself exclusively to that moment when odysseus sets foot on ithaca and confronts the suitors in the disguise of a beggar. how we cannot help but root for this titano-hero! how we adore watching him outwit the slaves to vice and concupiscence! how symphio-marvalo is his cleansing of his home from serpèntum! we all strive to secure for ourselves a safe corner on this chattering, infinitely morphing and unstable world yet odysseus' struggle is layered with so much more storms of nails than the common man, even contending with the curse of the sea-god poseidon!
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